Religion Issue of Abandoned Children: Analytical Study of Juristic and Legal Approaches

Abstract

Human Respect is an important element for any human society. Societies comply with the people of different categories and different natures. Abandoned children are no doubt an important class of the human society which cannot be ignored or left helpless. There may be different issues of the abandoned children and the religion issues related to the abandoned children cannot be left unsolved as the religion deals with most of the social as well as the worship issues. When the parents of a child are unknown, then complications related to this matter will increase day by day. To prove the religion of an abandoned child, guardian influence, lineage of the abandoned and evidences available to resolve this issues will critically be observed. Each criterion for proving the religion of such child is further divided into different issues and juristic opinion. Lastly it will be discusses that if child disbelieves and turns to any other religion, how will he be dealt? The main objective of this research is to explore the different juristic opinions related to the religion of any abandoned child so that his worldly matters may be dealt with his/hers determined religion. This is, in some way, the freedom of religion even for a minor person. It is Islamic quality that it deals with principles just to provide the justice to every member of the society.